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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4d

Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social!

Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology

#AcademicSky

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 7d

I have a publication date and a cover! 7th May 2026! 📚💙

Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Uncover the lost legacies of the women who changed psychology forever...

ABSENT MINDS by @maddipow.bsky.social is out 07.05.2026.

Available to pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/absent-...

Take a moment to think of all the psychologists you can name. Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Piaget, are perhaps the first that come to mind. Now consider how many women you can name. In asking this question, I am often met with a deafening silence.

Absent Minds by Dr Madeleine Pownall. Coming 7 May 2026.

Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Uncover the lost legacies of the women who changed psychology forever...

ABSENT MINDS by @maddipow.bsky.social is out 07.05.2026.

Available to pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/absent-...

AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 10d

@forrt.bsky.social's diamond open access replication journal is accepting submissions: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 12d

I was talking to a student today about my favourite writers and their lovely little linguistic and stylistic quirks, and it made me sad to think that the AI-ification of academic writing could render a lot of that uniqueness extinct one day

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 13d

Oh I LOVE the sound of this. Such important work

T-FΨN (Teaching-Focused University Network) @t-fun.bsky.social · 13d

👷 We've updated our website (t-fun.co.uk ), making it more usable by screen-readers, added a new presentations page, linked to our youtube channel (buff.ly/h9ZDie1 ) & uploaded loads of new presentations! Enjoy reading & watching and please like & subscribe! #Psychology #Teaching #Learning #HigherEd

Teaching-Focused University Network – A Teaching-Focused University Network for Psychology and related disciplines

A Teaching-Focused University Network for Psychology and related disciplines

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 14d

LOUDER 📣

“…analytic approaches such as reflexive thematic analysis are human research practices requiring a subjective, positioned and reflexive researcher and therefore the use of AI in such approaches is not methodologically congruent"

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GenAI and qualitative analysis open letter DRAFT4.docx

28 Oct 2025 Dear Michael Giardina, We submit this commentary for your consideration for publication with Qualitative Inquiry. Four hundred and thirteen experienced qualitative researchers from 38 co...

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Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 14d

Open to Collaboration: Supporting Open Research at the University of Leeds leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/o...

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Open to Collaboration: Supporting Open Research at the University of Leeds

The first Open Lunch of the year was a bit different from usual and instead of just one or two speakers, we had…loads! 14 to be precise and not just from the Library, rather the various teams…

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 15d

Today my twin brother rang to update me on how his newborn babies are doing, and I told him in detail about how I recently made the decision to switch to Arial as my default email font. Being 28 comes at you fast

Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 17d

Asking researchers to be mindful of their citational practices isn't a threat to academic freedom, and it isn't censorship. It's good academic practice

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 17d

Home from Indonesia with jet lag, sun burn, and a 3-page to-do list of things I want to write and read and people I want to talk to.

I had the best time ever meeting with old and new collaborators and chatting about education reform and how to do things better 🇮🇩💜

Me stood with a microphone in front of a slide that reads “dehumanisation in higher education”

A sunny scene of a blue sky and palm trees

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 18d

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) is here at the Open Science Festival NL!

Come by our booth and get some free stickers and learn about FORRT.

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@jeffreylees.bsky.social @ninaschwarzbach.bsky.social @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 19d

Thrilled to announce that @maddipow.bsky.social and I have just submitted our edited book, Teaching Open Science to the publisher! ✨️ 📖 🌎

It comprises 12 beautiful chapters on topics such as teaching #ReproducibleResearch, developing #OpenEducationalResources, & #DecolonisingTheCurriculum

Dr Richard Harris @richharrisleeds.bsky.social · 20d

Had a great time at the Psychology from the East, Psychology from the West Conference in Bali last week presenting our collaborative project which brings together students from Indonesia and the UK on a 3-week, co-designed, online psychological literacy programme! 🇮🇩

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you for writing/leading such an important paper. It’s inspired so much of my thinking

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

I’m riled up in defence of humanness in Higher Education and there’s more I want to say but hold that thought and I’ll be back with a proper written commentary about this soon

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

Inspired a lot by @ginnybraun.bsky.social, I also talked about how AI can be depriving us of learning, connection, and even (dare I say) joy. For example, what do we miss if we outsource our assessment & feedback of student work to AI? What are we depriving ourselves of? What a waste and a shame

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

We also talked about how we have a duty to resist where we can and need to. There was a conversation in the Q&A about “well that’s life, universities are dehumanising, everything is metricised, what can you do” and I think we can do a lot. If we can reform science (a bit) we can reform education too

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

We spoke about how humanising pedagogies (like psychological literacy) that prompt students to “bring themselves” to their learning, rather than sanitising and commodifying education through AI, can be a way to resist dehumanising systems in Higher Education

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24d

In Bali for the “Psychology from the East, Psychology from the West” conference 🇮🇩 🏝️

Today I spoke about how the “embracing” of AI in education may contribute to the dehumanisation of both students and educators, ft a lively discussion about @olivia.science et al’s paper on uncritical adoption

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 25d

'..commitment to openness and freedom reflects a strikingly instrumental logic. These values are to be protected not as ends in themselves, but because they are believed to drive scientific progress & deliver tangible (often marketable) outcomes, thus ultimately serving political & economic agendas"

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 26d

"Seen from this perspective, the challenge is not simply to strike the right balance between openness, freedom and security. Academic freedom also requires positive commitments to uphold science as a public good."

Piece by Raffaela Kunz on the geopolitics of openness.

As Open as Necessary?

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 26d

"Seen from this perspective, the challenge is not simply to strike the right balance between openness, freedom and security. Academic freedom also requires positive commitments to uphold science as a public good."

Piece by Raffaela Kunz on the geopolitics of openness.

As Open as Necessary?

verfassungsblog.de

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 28d

“Most job adverts for senior management positions begin with the need for the applicant to have a world-leading academic record.

But isn’t that rather odd given that neither teaching nor research are in the senior manager’s job description?” 💯

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 29d

Universities must become more open to non-academic talent: Both within management and the professoriate, the need for a wider range of experience and skills is only getting stronger, says Marcus Munafò
https://ow.ly/O8yL50X9Fjp

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 29d

Universities must become more open to non-academic talent: Both within management and the professoriate, the need for a wider range of experience and skills is only getting stronger, says Marcus Munafò
https://ow.ly/O8yL50X9Fjp

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Oct 10

Had a lovely lovely time chatting about what could be the (inclusive, collaborative, reflexive) future of open science at @astonpsychology.bsky.social this week. Thanks @drcpennington.bsky.social for hosting me and chatting open science non-stop for 3 full days 📚

Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · Oct 10

Check out our new preprint on "How to Develop and Use Open Educational Resources" 📖✨

This iteration will later be published in a new book "Teaching Open Science" edited by @drcpennington.bsky.social and @maddipow.bsky.social. Watch this space! 👀

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Oct 6

Love the look of this Call for Papers in Perspectives on Psychological Science: "Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward"

Editor: Arturo E. Hernandez
What will psychological science look like in the year 2125?

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Call for Papers: Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward

Editor: Arturo E. HernandezWhat will psychological science look like in the year 2125?This special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science invites contributors to imagine the long arc of our di...

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